Babcock, Erin D. (Stony Plain, NDP)
Acheson industrial area
Members' statements ... 1496
Agriculture Financial Services Corporation
Cancer diagnosis and treatment
Members' statements ... 2035
Carbon levy
Members' statements ... 414
City Charters Fiscal Framework Act (Bill 32)
Committee ... 2345-46 Funding framework, impact of provincial revenue on ... 2345
Emergency debate under Standing Order 30 (current session)
Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline construction suspension ... 460-61
Energy Efficiency Alberta
Health care finance
Publicly funded services, members' statements ... 2035
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Members' statements ... 2098
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Long-term care facilities (nursing homes/auxiliary hospitals)
Access ... 422 Access, rural areas ... 422
Members' Statements (current session)
Acheson industrial area ... 1496 Cancer treatment and public health care ... 2035 Carbon levy ... 414 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women ... 2098 Women's equality ... 596
Municipal sustainability initiative
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
2018 harvest, support for agriculture ... 1707-8 Hospital and long-term care spaces ... 422 Municipal funding ... 602-3 Organ and tissue donation ... 2232 Support for agriculture ... 1707-8
Organ and tissue donation
Pipeline construction
Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline construction suspension, emergency debate under Standing Order 30 ... 460-61
Preserving Canada's Economic Prosperity Act (Bill 12)
WestView health centre, Stony Plain
Women's equality
Members' statements ... 596
Barnes, Drew (Cypress-Medicine Hat, UCP)
Act to Recognize AMA Representation Rights, An (Bill 24)
Second reading ... 1885-87, 2028-29 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Families and Communities Committee (referral amendment REF1) (Pitt: defeated) ... 1885-86 Stakeholder consultation ... 2029
Act to Renew Local Democracy in Alberta, An (Bill 23)
Second reading ... 2026-27 Second reading, motion to refer subject matter of bill to the Resource Stewardship Committee (referral amendment REF1) (Pitt: defeated) ... 2026-27 Stakeholder consultation ... 2026-27
Act to Secure Alberta's Electricity Future, An (Bill 13)
Second reading ... 947-49, 1247-48 Second reading, motion to refer subject matter of bill to Alberta's Economic Future Committee (referral amendment) (Pitt: defeated) ... 947-49 Second reading, motion to not now read (3-month hoist amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1247-48 Committee ... 1329-30 Committee, amendment A2 (ISO payments to capacity market participants) (Panda: defeated) ... 1329-30
Agriculture Financial Services Corporation
Funding from interim supply ... 92
Alberta Electric System Operator
Renewable electricity program evaluation ... 947-48
Alberta Health Services (authority)
Procurement process ... 526
Alberta Netcare (provincial electronic health records)
Appropriation Act, 2018 (Bill 15)
Appropriation (Supplementary Supply) Act, 2018 (Bill 4)
Brewing industry
Craft brewery markup ... 2148 Interprovincial/territorial trade ... 2148
Budget 2017-2018
Contingency plans for reserve transfer ... 127 Second-quarter fiscal update ... 2255 Third-quarter fiscal update ... 88-90, 127, 231, 300-301
Budget 2018-2019 debate
Debate participants (Government Motion 13: adjourned) ... 487-88 Debate participants (Government Motion 13: adjourned), questions and comments ... 488-89
Budget process
Balanced/deficit budgets ... 288 Interim supply use ... 88 Revenue/cost forecasts used ... 127, 544-45, 1939
Canada health transfer (federal government)
Federal-provincial agreement ... 91
Cannabis
Federal-provincial arrangement on duty approval (Government Motion 24: carried) ... 1240-41 Pricing ... 1241
Capital projects
Countercyclical funding (funding during economic downturn), Dodge report recommendations ... 90 Funding, 2018-2019 ... 685
Carbon levy
Economic impact ... 383, 488-89, 2148 Financial reporting ... 88-89 Impact on border communities ... 92-93 Impact on Children's Services costs ... 126 Impact on education costs ... 1076 Impact on energy costs ... 1076 Impact on health care costs ... 91 Impact on nonprofit organization costs ... 92 Impact on school transportation costs ... 122-23 Rate ... 487, 686, 1062 Referendum proposed ... 1217 Revenue utilization ... 383, 544-45, 686, 843, 1217
Child protective services
Administrative efficiencies ... 123, 125 Caseloads ... 125 Early intervention services, budgetary efficiencies ... 125 Funding from supplementary supply ... 123, 125 Supports for permanency, funding from supplementary supply ... 123
Class size initiative (elementary and secondary schools)
Auditor General's report ... 123
Climate leadership plan, provincial
Administration costs ... 88-89 Relation to pipeline approval ... 509
Committee on Legislative Offices, Standing
Election Commissioner search minority report ... 715-16
Corporate taxation, provincial
Provincial revenue ... 91 Rate ... 685, 843 Tax rate ... 1062
Crown prosecution service
Funding from interim supply ... 92
Daycare
Funding from supplementary supply ... 126
Daycare centres
Accreditation, funding from supplementary supply ... 123
Daycare subsidies
Administrative efficiencies ... 125 Federal funding ... 123, 125
Debts, public (provincial debt)
Borrowing for capital projects ... 127 Debt level ... 369, 444, 487-88, 684-86, 843, 1503, 2093 Debt repayment ... 942, 1076 Debt-servicing costs ... 90-92, 369, 487-88, 509, 622-23, 684-85, 824, 1061-62, 1247-48, 1340-41, 1757, 1773, 1990, 2255 Debt-servicing costs, funding from supplementary supply ... 120 Debt-to-GDP ratio ... 92 Members' statements ... 1219 Provincial borrowing ... 230-31 Provincial credit rating ... 92, 685-86 Provincial deficit ... 288
Early childhood education
Funding from supplementary supply ... 121 Private service providers, funding from supplementary supply ... 121
Early learning and child care centres
Provincial pilot program ... 125
Early learning and child care curriculum framework (Play, Participation, and Possibilities)
Economy of Alberta
Current fiscal position ... 288, 1990 Current fiscal position, economic indicators ... 64, 88 Economic indicators ... 1503, 1756-57 Recovery ... 685
Education finance
Funding for rural school boards and districts ... 122-23
Election Commissioner
Appointment of Lorne Gibson (Government Motion 16: carried) ... 714-16, 883, 894-96 Appointment of Lorne Gibson (Government Motion 16: carried), amendment A1 (public posting of Election Commissioner's compensation) (van Dijken: defeated) ... 714-16 Appointment of Lorne Gibson (Government Motion 16: carried), amendment A2 (term of office) (Aheer: defeated) ... 883, 894-95 Job posting ... 715, 894
Electric power plants
Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 947-48
Electric power prices
Regulated rate cap ... 1247
Elkwater Hutterite colony
Emergency motions under Standing Order 42 (current session)
Statistics Canada request for personal financial information (unanimous consent denied) ... 1880
Employment and training programs
Funding from supplementary supply ... 126
Employment Standards Code
Amendments, impact on Children's Services costs ... 126
Energy Diversification Act (Bill 1)
Second reading ... 303-5 Second reading, motion to refer bill to Resource Stewardship Committee (referral amendment REF1) (Pitt: defeated) ... 303-5
Energy industries
Competitiveness ... 1062 Competitiveness, members' statements ... 2142-43 Diversification ... 685 Environmental and ethical standards ... 79 Investment in Alberta ... 304 Project approval timelines ... 304 Unemployment ... 78-79
Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act
Family and community support services
Funding from supplementary supply ... 123
Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
Information requests under act ... 715
Government contracts
Amendments to requests for proposals ... 526
Government ministries
Financial reporting changes ... 2365-66
Government services, public
Funding ... 684 Services in Medicine Hat, members' statements ... 659
Grasslands
Rangeland recovery research ... 1006
Growth and Diversification Act (Bill 2)
Second reading ... 1061-62 Second reading, motion to not now read because government should pursue other supports for business (reasoned amendment) (Cooper: defeated) ... 1061-62
Health care finance
Funding for allied health professionals ... 91 Laundry service cost ... 231
Interim supply estimates 2018-2019
Capital investment expenses ... 89-90 Estimates debate ... 88-93 Level of detail provided ... 88
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Irrigation rehabilitation program
Funding from interim supply ... 92
Joint Governance of Public Sector Pension Plans Act (Bill 27)
Second reading ... 2128-29 Committee ... 2287-92 Committee, amendment A1 (Auditor General to be pension plan auditor) (Barnes: defeated) ... 2287-89 Committee, amendment A2 (transition dates) (Barnes: defeated) ... 2289-90 Committee, amendment A3 (board of governor appointments) (Barnes: defeated) ... 2291-92 Third reading ... 2373-74 Amendments proposed ... 2373-74
Labour force planning
Funding from supplementary supply ... 126
Medicine Hat Diagnostic Laboratory Ltd.
Members' Statements (current session)
Government services in Medicine Hat ... 659 North American energy industry competitiveness ... 2142-43 Provincial intergenerational debt ... 1219 Unemployment and government fiscal policies ... 1935 United Conservative Party ... 378-79
Minimum wage
Increase ... 91 Increase, impact on Children's Services costs ... 126 Increase, impact on health care costs ... 91
Ministerial Panel on Child Intervention
Funding ... 124 Recommendations ... 124
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Interim supply estimates 2018-2019 ... 92 Interim supply estimates 2018-2019, capital investment ... 92 Interim supply estimates 2018-2019, financial transactions ... 92
Ministry of Children's Services
Budgetary efficiencies ... 125 Staff training, aboriginal cultural sensitivity, funding from supplementary supply ... 124 Supplementary supply estimates 2017-2018 debate ... 123-26
Ministry of Education
Cost efficiencies ... 122 Supplementary supply estimates 2017-2018, transfer from expense to capital investment ... 120-21 Supplementary supply estimates 2017-2018 debate ... 120-23, 127
Ministry of Health
Interim supply estimates 2018-2019 ... 91
Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General
Interim supply estimates 2018-2019 ... 92
Ministry of Labour
Supplementary supply estimates 2017-2018, transfer from expense to capital investment ... 126 Supplementary supply estimates 2017-2018 debate ... 126
Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance
Interim supply estimates 2018-2019 ... 92 Interim supply estimates 2018-2019, financial transactions ... 92 Interim supply estimates 2018-2019, risk management and insurance expenses ... 92
Municipal finance
Cannabis excise tax revenue ... 1240
Municipal sustainability initiative
Funding from supplementary supply ... 300-301
New Democratic Party
Position on pipeline construction ... 2068
Nonprofit organizations
Funding from supplementary supply ... 125
Oil sands development
Emissions cap ... 304-5 Investment in Alberta ... 942
Olympic Games
2026 Winter Games, Calgary bid ... 1818-19
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Agricultural concerns ... 1006 Brewing industry policies ... 2148 Calgary's 2026 Winter Olympics bid ... 1818-19 Carbon levy economic impact ... 383 Carbon levy revenue utilization ... 1217 Caribou range plans ... 196 Economic indicators ... 64 Financial reporting by government ... 2365-66 Government policies and economic indicators ... 1756-57 Government procurement process ... 526 Government revenue forecasts ... 544-45 Government spending ... 1663-64 Oil price differentials and provincial debt ... 2092-93 Oil price differentials and provincial revenue ... 2234 Oil sands investments, provincial debt ... 942 Provincial budget revenue forecasts ... 1939 Provincial debt ... 369, 824, 942, 1773 Provincial debt-servicing costs ... 622-23, 1340-41 Provincial fiscal policies ... 288, 508-9, 1076, 1503, 1990 Provincial fiscal update ... 2255 Provincial spending ... 443-44 Ranchers' water access ... 116-17 Support for business ... 2068-69
Physicians
Rural physicians, recruitment and retention ... 1886
Pipeline construction
Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project opposition, provincial response ... 79 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project support (Government Motion 2: carried as amended unanimously) ... 78-79 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project support (Government Motion 2: carried as amended unanimously), amendment A1 to (a) replace "the government of Alberta's fight on behalf of Albertans' interests" with "the efforts by the government of Alberta to fight on behalf of Albertans' interests," (b)(i)strike out "continue to," and (ii) insert ," including putting before Parliament a declaration that the pipeline is in the national interest pursuant to section 92(10(c) of the Constitution Act, 1867" after "construction," motion on (Nixon: defeated) ... 78-79 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project suspension ... 686
Private schools
Enrolment ... 121 Faith-based schools, funding from supplementary supply ... 121 Funding from supplementary supply ... 121
Property tax
Commercial rates, Calgary ... 1757 Taxes in arrears ... 1756
Public Service Employee Relations Amendment Act, 2018 (Bill 29)
Third reading ... 2217-18 Arbitration provisions ... 2217-18 Coming-into-force date ... 2217
Recreational facilities
Carbon levy costs ... 1076
Registered education savings plans
Plans for children and youth in care, funding from supplementary supply ... 124
Revenue
Forecasts and projections ... 2234 Nonrenewable natural resource revenue, reliance on ... 487, 545-46 Resolution to urge government to ensure that revenue from fees, levies, specific taxes, and fines be used for programs and services requiring them (Motion Other than Government Motion 503: defeated) ... 843-44 Tax revenue ... 2255
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
New officers ... 92 New officers, training ... 92
School maintenance and repair
Funding from supplementary supply ... 120
Schoolchildren's transportation
Schools
Enrolment pressures ... 122 Facility condition index ... 120 Increased enrolment ... 121
Securities Amendment Act, 2018 (Bill 20)
Second reading ... 1682-83 Benchmark and benchmark administrator provisions ... 1682-83 Harmonization with other jurisdictions' legislation ... 1682-83 Provisions for whistle-blowing ... 1683 Section 223, documentation formats ... 1683
Separate schools
Funding from supplementary supply ... 121
Specified gas emitters regulation (Alberta Regulation 139/2007)
Comparison to carbon levy ... 487
Statistics Canada
Request for personal financial data, request for emergency debate under Standing Order 42 (unanimous consent denied) ... 1880
Supplementary supply estimates 2017-2018
Estimates debate ... 120-27 Estimates debate procedure ... 127 Financial transactions ... 120
Tax credits
Capital investment tax credit (CITC) ... 383 General remarks ... 1062
Taxation, provincial
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 843 Tax rates ... 64, 508
Tourism levy
Revenue transferred to general revenue ... 843
Unemployment
Comparison with other jurisdictions ... 88, 92 Members' statements ... 1935 Youth unemployment ... 942
United Conservative Party
Members' statements ... 378-79
Voting in municipal elections
Water allocation
Licences, southern Alberta ... 116-17
Wildfire, Acadia Valley (2017)
Landowner compensation ... 1006
Wildfire, Hilda (2017)
Landowner compensation ... 1006
Wildfire prevention and control
Funding from interim supply ... 92
Youth at risk
Financial agreements for transition from child protective services, funding from supplementary supply ... 123
Bilous, Deron (Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview, NDP; Minister of Economic Development and Trade)
Act to Enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to Make Consequential Amendments to Other Acts, An (federal Bill C-69)
Provincial response ... 1613, 1628, 1823
Airlines
International cargo service ... 256-57 International passenger service ... 256-57
Alberta Energy Regulator
Project approval timelines ... 1627
Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis
Charitable gaming model ... 2043
Amazon
Balzac distribution centre ... 1429
Asphalt
Export to British Columbia ... 525
Bitumen
Export to British Columbia ... 525
Brewing industry
Interprovincial/territorial trade ... 2148
Business Link Business Service Centre
Services for immigrants, members' statements ... 367-68
Capital projects
Countercyclical funding (funding during economic downturn) ... 662
Carbon conversion technology centre, Calgary
Funding from supplementary supply ... 134-35, 141
Carbon pricing (federal)
Legal challenge by other provinces ... 1662, 2194
Climate leadership plan, provincial
Energy industry support for ... 2051 Relation to pipeline approval ... 509, 524, 1217, 1411
Debts, public (provincial debt)
Economic development
Competitiveness ... 370, 2069 Impact of government policies on ... 2368 Investment attraction ... 1429, 2369
Economy of Alberta
Current fiscal position, economic indicators ... 64, 586, 588-89 Economic indicators ... 1503 Recovery ... 662
Electric power plants
Coal-fired facilities retirement ... 2039-40 Coal-fired facilities retirement, economic impact assessments ... 664-65
Emergency debate under Standing Order 30 (current session)
Oil price differentials ... 2050-52 Trans Mountain pipeline expansion completion ... 1627-28
Employment and training programs
Energy industries
Competitiveness ... 370 Diversification ... 115, 1627-28 Provincial special envoys ... 1989-90
Energy policies, provincial
Fiscal policy
Economic impact ... 509 Government spending ... 1663-64 Official Opposition policies ... 662 Provincial cost-saving initiatives ... 1665
Government policies
Impact on business ... 2075
Growth and Diversification Act (Bill 2)
First reading ... 118 Second reading ... 243-45 Committee ... 1256-57, 1291-92, 1296-97, 1380-81 Committee, amendment A1 (interactive digital media tax credit criteria) (McPherson/Fraser: defeated) ... 1291 Committee, amendment A2 (income threshold) (McPherson/Fraser: defeated) ... 1292 Committee, amendment A3 (interactive digital media tax credit diversity enhanced credit) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 1296-97 Committee, amendment A4 (removal of enhanced credit for diverse and inclusive workplace policies) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 1380 Committee, amendment A6 (enhanced credit for diverse and inclusive workplace policies exemption) (Fildebrandt: defeated) ... 1381
Introduction of Guests (school groups, individuals)
Introduction of Visitors (visiting dignitaries)
Ambassador of Germany to Canada, honorary consuls of Germany in Edmonton and Calgary ... 579 Consul general of Japan in Calgary, deputy consul general, and honorary consul general in Edmonton ... 2141 High commissioner for New Zealand to Canada and Consul General of New Zealand in Vancouver ... 1911 High commissioner of the United Kingdom to Canada, consul general for the United Kingdom, and British consulate representative ... 1655
Job creation
Private-sector jobs ... 2369
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
Supplementary supply estimates 2017-2018, transfer from expense to capital investment, debate ... 134-35, 141
Ministry of Environment and Parks
Minister's position on the energy industry ... 2072 Minister's remarks on oil sands advisory group selection process ... 337
New Democratic Party
Position on pipeline construction ... 1217
Nonprofit organizations
Rural charities' access to gaming revenue ... 2043
North American free trade agreement
Westmoreland Coal claim against Alberta ... 2039-40
North Saskatchewan regional plan (land-use framework)
Stakeholder survey ... 2194
Office of the Premier
Premier's meeting with federal Finance minister on Trans Mountain pipeline suspension ... 523
Oil
Imported oil, federal regulations ... 370
Oil prices
Alberta differentials on global prices ... 2042, 2093-94, 2193 Alberta differentials on global prices, emergency debate under Standing Order 30 ... 2050-52
Oil sands advisory group (former)
Co-chair's pipeline opposition ... 337 Members' pipeline opposition ... 523, 1989-90
Oral Question Period (current session topics)
Aerospace industry promotion ... 1274-75 Amazon distribution centre in Balzac ... 1429 Bighorn area land use ... 2193-94 Brewing industry policies ... 2148 Business Link support for immigrant entrepreneurs ... 367-68 Business regulations ... 1941-42 Carbon levy ... 1615 Carbon levy and pipeline approvals ... 523-24 Carbon levy and pipeline development ... 1411 Carbon levy and seniors ... 116 Carbon levy economic impact ... 383, 586 Carbon levy increase ... 113 Carbon policy economic impacts ... 664-65 Charitable gaming in rural Alberta ... 2043 Coal phase-out costs ... 2039-40 Community economic development corporation tax credit ... 2041 Diversity-related tax credits ... 1214 Economic competitiveness ... 370 Economic development and energy project approval ... 2368 Economic indicators ... 64 Economic recovery initiatives ... 662 Energy advisory group appointments ... 1989-90 Energy resource revenue ... 2042 Federal and provincial energy policies ... 2194 Federal Bill C-69 ... 1823 Federal Bill C-69 and pipeline construction ... 1613 Federal response to pipeline opposition ... 522 Government spending ... 1663-64 International cargo and passenger air service ... 256-57 NDP and pipeline development ... 1217 Oil and gas transportation ... 2195 Oil price differentials ... 2093-94, 2193 Oil sands advisory group former co-chair ... 337 Petrochemicals diversification program ... 115 Pipeline development ... 2040, 2072 Private-sector job creation ... 2369 Promotion of Alberta's technology sector ... 1817-18 Provincial budget revenue forecasts ... 1661, 1940 Provincial debt ... 1773 Provincial fiscal policies ... 508-9, 1503, 1665 Provincial fiscal sustainability ... 2075 Provincial revenue and carbon pricing ... 1662 Rural high-speed Internet ... 2070 Small-business economic indicators ... 588-89 Steel and aluminum tariffs ... 1500 Support for business ... 2069 Trade with British Columbia ... 525 United States tariffs on steel ... 1819 Workforce education and training ... 1503-4
Petrochemicals diversification program
General remarks ... 1627-28
Pipeline construction
Enbridge Northern Gateway project cancellation ... 1627 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project opposition, provincial response ... 525 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion project suspension ... 522-24 Opposition ... 2040 Opposition, federal response ... 522-24 Premier's advocacy for ... 1627 TransCanada Energy East project cancellation ... 1627 TransCanada Keystone XL project ... 1627
Postsecondary educational institution
Technology program space increase ... 1257
Railroads
Oil and gas transportation ... 2195
Royalty structure (energy resources)
Review ... 1627
Small business
CFIB report ... 588-89 Tax rate reduction, economic impact ... 588
Supplementary supply estimates 2017-2018
Tax credits
Alberta investor tax credit (AITC) ... 243-44, 1256-57 Capital investment tax credit (CITC) ... 243-44, 383, 662, 1256-57 Capital investment tax credit (CITC) approved ... 1274 Community economic development corporation (CEDC) credit ... 2041 Enhanced credits for inclusive and diverse workforce policies ... 1214 Interactive digital media tax credit (IDMTC) ... 244, 1256-57, 1817
Technology industries
Investment attraction ... 1818 Underrepresented populations' employment in ... 1818
West Country Centre, Sundre
Carbon levy costs ... 116
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